Prince Harry eyeing South Pole trek?
After his four-day North Pole expedition, Prince Harry is said to be eyeing a trek to the South Pole. The 27-year-old third-in-line to the British throne is, in fact, in talks to join wounded soldiers on another ambitious but much longer polar mission — this time to deepest Antarctica, the Sunday Express reported.
A source said: “The will is certainly there but it is all a question of timing.” Harry joined four soldiers on the first part of their Arctic trek in 2011 to raise money for the charity Walking With The Wounded. Military commitments meant that he was not able to complete the whole of the 13-day, 190-mile journey to the North Pole, in which he dragged a 220 pounds sled in temperatures as low as minus 35C.
Despite the harsh conditions he endured, aides are looking at his diary to fit in the five-week trek to the South Pole in November and December 2013.
Harry also paid tribute to the four former servicemen he joined on the trek last April to the North Pole, admitting that he had struggled to keep up with them. Guy Disney, Jaco van Gass, Martin Hewitt and Steve Young were the fastest team to reach the Pole that season, despite all having sustained horrific injuries in the field.
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Dancing dog, trainer win Britain’s Got Talent title
age correspondent
london
A dancing dog and its trainer have won reality TV talent show, Britain’s Got Talent. Seventeen-year-old Ashleigh Butler, who is from Wellinborough, Northamptonshire, and her six-year-old mixed breed dog Pudsey danced to the Mission Impossible theme in the finals of the reality television show on Saturday. Ashleigh and Pudsey won £500,000 and will perform their routine at the Royal Variety Performance in front of Queen Elizabeth II. “I just want to say thank you to everyone that voted for me, and I’m just so proud of Pudsey,” Ashleigh said after being announced winners, beating bookie favourite pop opera duo, Jonathan Antoine and Charlotte Jaconelli, to second place. The pop opera duo are teenagers too — Jonathan is 17 and Charlotte is 16 years old.
Welsh boys choir Only Boys Aloud, which has 133 members aged between 14 to 19, came in third place after their rendition of Calon Lan.
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